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Volumes have been set forth on this subject, and the bickering and ruckus about where the "hot" slot games are positioned in the casino are still happening – more than 60 years after slot machine games were 1st placed in gambling houses.
The quintessential rule is that the better one armed bandits were put just inside the main entrance of the casino; so that folks passing by would see actual jackpot winners … be stirred to come into the casino … play. Our perspective is that this is no longer true.
The majority of the big name casinos presently are jumbo complexes and you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slot machines near any doors.
Another standard rule is that loose slot machine games are located on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be roused to play. Notably though, we find that this also isn’t a universal rule any more.
What casinos found over the years is that people walking down the busy aisles were frequently on the way to somewhere else. If they played the slots at all, they would simply put in their loose change because they happened to be walking by. Win or lose, they would very often not stop to keep playing. And the very last thing a casino wants is for someone to win a jackpot by playing only a few coins and then not stay to put it all back in!
In recent times, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slots.
